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Lawyers use technology to practice and increasingly those tools are shifting out of their offices and onto the Internet. In order to take advantage of these tools, lawyers will have to identify how they to balance their professional duties with this new opportunity. As the products they use move to the cloud as Web-based applications or resources, they need to be prepared to understand what is happening and how it will affect their practice.

Practice Law in the Cloud gives readers the context and background so that they can make informed decisions about what elements of their practice should move to the cloud and under what circumstances. It raises their level of awareness and, in the long term, their level of comfort with the change that is happening.

About the Author

David Whelan, J.D., M.L.S., is currently the Manager, Legal Information at The Law Society of Upper Canada and oversees The Law Society's Great Library, Corporate Records and Archives and supports Ontario's county law library system. He is a lawyer and librarian who has spent his career dealing with technology and information.

David is focused on improving how legal professionals use and access information. He received his J.D. at the University of Arkansas - Little Rock and his library degree at the University of North Texas. He has led information and technology teams at Southern Methodist University, the American Bar Association, the Cincinnati Law Library Association, and the Law Society of Upper Canada. David speaks frequently on legal information and law practice technology issues at lawyer and library conferences in the U.S. and Canada. He writes about practice technology on the Slaw.ca blog and regularly contributes to law practice and library publications.
Link to David Whelan's blog at http://fli.canadalawbook.ca